SharePoint User Group UK

Hi,

Just wondered what others are using for Web analytics with their moss implementations.  Can anyone recommend a decent product that works with moss.  The problem with the inbuilt usuage pages are that not everyone can access them and i need deeper analysis.  This means that in my case they are pretty much wasted.  There was a sql report pack for sps2003 but cant seem to  find one for moss.

On a side note: does anyone know why I need to log into the usage sections using my shared services pool account ?. 

thx.

There isn't (and wont be a MOSS report Pack for RS) - it wasn't a scalable or efficient approach.

There are currently no 3rd party offerings that do MOSS stats justice. Another major ISV opportunity being wasted!  THings like WebTrends are not much use because they don't understand SharePoint logs files and things like "hits" and "pages" are generally pointless metrics in SharePoint _ with the excetepion of publishing sites.

However there are numerous approaches to taking the OOTB stats - and making them more "availble". It really depends on what specific requirements you have over and above the OOTB functionality.

 

The SSP issue is a known bug with ASP.NET. It's because the SSP account has never logged on interactively and .NET expects there to be a profile directory on disk - the result being access denied. There is a hotfix at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913384

You need to install this every application server running the WSS Web Application Service

 

hth

S.

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Spence
www.harbar.net

Hi Thx for the comments and the hotfix...worked a treat!.

Shame that there isnt anything out there then...Are you refering to custom site groups to make the ootb reports more available ? or is there other means?

So, what would be the best approach for creating a report that shows what pages are owned by whom within a publishing site?. (Should i try and present them as a SQL report or webpart..other?) this is just one of the many reports I need to create...

any advice greatly appreciated.

ta.

It's really better to gather all the report requirements together and then try and find a best fit solution for all of them - treating them individually you can easily end up with a nice option for each but they are all different.

In a publishing site scenario - something like web trends is appropriate for "regular" stats.

For the one on owners - best bet would be a c# console app or powershell script that iterates items and spits out CSV or XML or XLS or whatever with a list of sites/pages and thier owners.

You could display it then as whatever - if you need web part - just spit out (cached) HTML rather than CSV etc.

SQL Reporting is way overkill or this one alone.

 

s.

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Spence
www.harbar.net

thanks for the info... re: the C# console app...how would I go about hosting that in a moss environment?

Well the console app wouldn't itself be hosted in MOSS. It would probably be set up as a Windows scheduled task or similar. This would then output a file, or indeed output to a WSS list or DocLib, which could then be dispayed within MOSS using standard capabilities.

s.

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Spence
www.harbar.net

CardioLog 2007 by Intlock is a web analytics solution designed for Enterprise Portals - including SharePoint 2007. It has its own JavaScript tracking agent and identifies SharePoint's object model - to provide first class reports:

http://www.intlock.com/

thx..the only thing here is that the users want the report to be interactive in that when an item in the report is clicked - it navigates to the page.

I guess you could also use Google Analytics to monitor site usage stats:

http://www.google.com/analytics

 

Ste.